Sylvia Wilkinson

Sylvia Wilkinson (born 1940) was born in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from Woman's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1962. She received her master's degree from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1963 and studied at Stanford University under a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship 1965-66. Wilkinson taught at various institutions including the Universities of North Carolina at Asheville and Chapel Hill, William & Mary, Sweet Briar, Hollins University, Washington University and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. She is a teaching scholar with the National Faculty. She received a number of literary awards including the Sir Walter Raleigh Award twice--in 1968 for "A Killing Frost", and again in 1978 for "Shadow of the Mountain", a Eugene Saxton Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the UNC - Greensboro Alumnae Service Award, and a Mademoiselle Merit Award for Literature. She has published 25 books: 6 novels for adults, 3 adult non fiction works (2 on auto racing, one on education) and 16 juveniles with automotive themes. She was a Motorsports Correspondent for Autoweek and is currently a World Book Encyclopedia contributor on auto racing. She was an auto racing timer and scorer for many years for numerous drivers including Paul Newman, Al Unser Sr., Bobby Rahal and Keke Rosberg.

References

* [http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/mss/html/Mss032.htm Finding Aid for the Sylvia Wilkinson Papers] The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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